cognitive-load-reviewer

What problem does it solve?

Complex, poorly structured code creates significant mental overhead, slowing down development, increasing bugs, and making onboarding difficult. This Skill acts as an expert code reviewer, identifying specific patterns that contribute to high cognitive load and recommending actionable refactoring strategies to simplify systems and improve maintainability.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Complexity Detection: Pinpoints areas with complex conditionals, deep nesting, shallow modules, and excessive abstraction layers.
• Refactoring Recommendations: Provides concrete examples and strategies for simplifying code, such as using early returns, extracting intermediate variables, and merging shallow modules.
• Architectural Guidance: Offers insights into avoiding microservices over-granularity, framework magic, and misinterpretations of DRY/SRP principles.
• Use Case: During a code review, provide a code snippet to this Skill and ask for a cognitive load analysis. It will highlight problematic areas and suggest specific, evidence-based improvements to make the code easier to understand and maintain.

Quick Start

Analyze the attached Rust code snippet for cognitive load and suggest improvements.